Example sentences of "as [conj] wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott quotes the case of a man who was persecuted by visions during a period of sickness and depression ; one of these visions was ‘ the apparition of a gentleman-usher , dressed as if to wait on a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland … arrayed in court dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat and chapeaubras ’ who ‘ glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash … |
| 2 | Without moving he watched McQuaid struggle from the car and then stand leaning on the open door as if waiting for someone to appear . |
| 3 | There was an uneasy pause , as if waiting for Mona , at the beginning of the Third Mystery . |
| 4 | At precisely the right moment , a heavily-built fellow with a black beard arrived and paced about , staring this way and that as if waiting impatiently for another to arrive . |
| 5 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 6 | as if waiting for a command to bring them to life , Trent thought . |
| 7 | The four surviving landscapes Modigliani painted are dry , limpid scenes with an air of desolation ; trees dominate , cypress trees or leafless trees , standing like sentinels in front of the houses and buildings , as if waiting for the people to emerge . |
| 8 | A tall , thin man stood staring at a stone wall , as if waiting for an answer to a question he had put to it . |
| 9 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 10 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 11 | Ace had stopped running , and now walked towards the hoverspeeder very slowly , as if waiting for Defries to catch her up before she reached it . |
| 12 | Uncle Albert just looked at her , as if waiting for her to go on . |
| 13 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 14 | He gazed at her , in silence , as if waiting to see if she had the strength to carry out this assertion . |
| 15 | Outside the dark woods and fields were silent as if waiting patiently for the approach of winter . |
| 16 | As soon as Felicity had left , she let go of him and they stood side by side , as if waiting for someone to photograph and frame them , listening to the slow ascent of Felicity up the stairs . |
| 17 | For long moments she simply sat , as if waiting for someone to tell her what to do , her own power of reasoning immobilised . |
| 18 | Her lips were red , half-open as if waiting to be kissed , displaying teeth as white as ivory , though I noticed one tooth slightly out of line with the others . |